How To Install spek on Debian 10

Learn how to install spek on Debian 10 with this tutorial. spek is acoustic spectrum analyser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spek on Debian 10.

What is spek

spek is:

Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. It supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats.

Features:

  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters
  • Can save the spectrogram as an image file
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers
  • Adjustable spectral density range

There are three methods to install spek on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install spek Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spek using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spek

Install spek Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spek using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spek

Install spek Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install spek using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spek

How To Uninstall spek on Debian 10

To uninstall only the spek package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spek

Uninstall spek And Its Dependencies

To uninstall spek and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spek

Remove spek Configurations and Data

To remove spek configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spek

Remove spek configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spek configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spek

Dependencies

spek have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spek package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.